Example sentences of "[adv] i have been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 2 | So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know . |
| 3 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 4 | Well I 've been in the Daily Mail 's office , presumably much the same . |
| 5 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 6 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 7 | Sometimes I 've been on the verge , but then the reeling vanished . ’ |
| 8 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet I have been in the game for two decades , I 've had a number big race successes and I was even stable jockey for Vincent O'Brien for three years . |
| 10 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 11 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 12 | More recently I have been on the phone to Minsk , Nottingham 's twin town , in connection with the Lord Mayor 's appeal for aid to the victims of Chernobyl . |